Category Archives: Alabama Tourism

ALABAMA TOURISM INDUSTRY GROWS NEAR RECORD $17 BILLION

For immediate release Twenty-eight million tourists spent a record $16.8 billion while vacationing in Alabama in 2019, the Alabama Tourism Department reports, crediting the arrival of more than a million additional guests who spent a billion dollars more than tourists the previous year.   With growth at nearly 8 percent, it was the third consecutive […]

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Tourism Tuesdays March 3, 2015

Alabama Tourism launches The Year of Alabama Barbecue Canadian outdoor adventure show a success World’s largest tourism trade fair underway in Berlin Lectern goes from basement to a starring role in “Selma” Wade joins Patti LaBelle to perform March 7 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March Montgomery mural depicting voting […]

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Tourism Tuesdays December 2, 2014

Tourism bonanza expected from Selma-to-Montgomery March’s 50th anniversary Construction begins on City of St. Jude’s CAMPSITE 4 project Governor’s Mansion open for candlelight tours Alabama Tourism at Travel South International Showcase Alabama Supreme Court rules against Dothan gambling hall The Rolling Stones get place in Alabama history The Village People to perform at MoonPie Over […]

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